Here are my settings that I use for both DVB-C TV and HD content (blu-ray and media player). I have turned the dynamic backlight off completely, since I feel it is way too invasive in dark scenes, really crushing the blacks.

I also changed the custom color temperature to add some more blue, because I feel the default is too yellowish.

The only Perfect Pixel HD options I use are Clear LCD and Perfect Contrast. I feel setting Perfect Contrast to Minimum gives me an image that "pops" just a bit more.

Firmware updates change behavior of the picture settings and therefore settings may not result "calibrated" picture for you anymore.

I still recommend using AVforums calibration that can be found on the first post for pretty much any use case or source. It still works wonders for a good base. From there on you can tweak the settings a bit for your own likings.

With current firmware-series (173) there have been a lot of changes on how dynamic backlight function works. Hopefully it will get fixed in the future firmware updates, to the way it used to be

At the moment settings standard and best picture result exactly the same kind of behavior, which must be some sort of strange bug. Because what's the point of having different options if the output is exactly the same.

(Idea for developer: Just introduce Eco, Min, Med, Max options for this. It's much more clear than "best picture" or "standard".)

What this does, is that is very aggressively changes brightness and backlight contrast settings based on content played on the screen. This allows couple of benefits. It hides the mura-effects / clouding etc. on dark scenes and black gets really black. However sometimes it does it so aggressively that you start paying too much attention to it how to brightness keeps fluctuating constantly, white subtitles clearly turns grey etc.

Earlier firmware (171) versions had the dynamic backlight setting standard with much more subtle changes. It was more much more subtle and didin't go in to the end of spectrums.

Current way the option is handled is especially problematic when viewing movies with narrow aspect ratio. TV interprets the black bars as "darker" image, so it's almost constantly detecting that the scene is "dark" and dropping the backlight which can result a too dim image, especially for scenes that are normal lighting (not bright, nor black)

Also game mode has gotten better (fw 173+), so no need to bump up the brightness so much anymore.

On my tv these settings give me a gray scale that has deltaE errors well below 2 from 20 ire and up and a nearly flat 2.2 gamma across the range (getting rid of the bump at 10 ire that the avforums reviewer mentions in his review). Luminance for 0 ire (the black level) is at 0.05 cd/m2 and 121 cd/m2 at 100 ire. Colour gamut: errors for primaries and secondaries are all below 1 except for red which I could get perfect at 100 ire but it compromised accuracy at lower ires so I left it alone.

Thanks for your input DannyN. Nice to have another calibrated setup around.

As we can see these calibrated settings from AVforums, FlatpanelsHD and DannyN's all seem to be pretty close up to each other. So you will most likely get your at least pretty damn close to calibrated when you start with any of these values or count averages of them and start from that.

I think this thread is fantastic and I have already made it a sticky some time ago

I'm happy to leave it here in this topic as it's makes sense to have it here. But if you want me to move it to the Experience & Insights topic section, just let me know.
I can move it and leave a permanent re-direct in this section too (short cut).

I'm using the settings posted by DannyD, they work well for my tv. I also tried the avforums settings, but while they give a very natural looking picture, they don't seem to make use of the full brightness range, reducing the tv's contrast ratio to some extent.

Anyway, I have some problems with the darkest tones, they seem to get crushed no matter which settings I use. It's quite easy to see this problem by looking at a black to white gradient, for example http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gradient.php. Have you noticed this problem or found any workarounds? The only way I can fix it is by making ps3 output limited rgb range, but that will also make blacks much brighter and any attempts to compensate using tv's settings bring the problem back.

In case it makes a difference, I'm using 171.56 firmware on my 46PFL8008. Maybe it's been improved since then?

I'm using the settings posted by DannyD, they work well for my tv. I also tried the avforums settings, but while they give a very natural looking picture, they don't seem to make use of the full brightness range, reducing the tv's contrast ratio to some extent.

Anyway, I have some problems with the darkest tones, they seem to get crushed no matter which settings I use. It's quite easy to see this problem by looking at a black to white gradient, for example http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gradient.php. Have you noticed this problem or found any workarounds? The only way I can fix it is by making ps3 output limited rgb range, but that will also make blacks much brighter and any attempts to compensate using tv's settings bring the problem back.

In case it makes a difference, I'm using 171.56 firmware on my 46PFL8008. Maybe it's been improved since then?

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